News and comment

01 June 1973
Comments News and comment Towards realistic penalties? During the last two or three years there have been too many occasions when it has been necessary to deplore an apparent upsurge of interest in egg collecting resulting in the robbing of nests of rarer species, notab...
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Letters

01 June 1973
Comments Letters Wallcreeper on migration in the Netherlands Dr H. Lohrl's statement (Brit. Birds, 63 : 167) that the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is non-migratory has been challenged by David Elias, H. G. Alexander, Guy Mountfort and K. D. Smith (Brit. Birds...
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Notes

01 June 1973
Comments Notes Aggression by female Buzzard at nest I was intrigued by the recent note from G. A. Williams and D. Coan on aggression by a female Buzzard Buteo buteo {Brit. Birds, 66: 31-32). O n 26th April 1944, in a large stand of mature Scots pines on a Lak...
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Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973
Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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Letters

01 January 1967
Comments Letters 'Meat or sickly sweets' Sirs,--I entirely disagree with Philip S. Redman (Brk. Birds, 59: 390). It seems to me that a really comprehensive interest in ornithology must extend beyond the birds to those who have made outstanding contributions to our knowled...
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Reviews

01 January 1967
Comments Reviews Ireland's Birds: Their Distribution and Migrations. By Robert F. Ruttledge. Witherby, London, 1966. 207 pages; 11 plates and a map. 30s. Ireland has not been specially noted for its ornithology in the past; the birds were known to be there, when people we...
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Notes

01 January 1967
Comments Notes Heron apparently fishing i n deep water.--The observations below were made by us independently on two separate days, but, because the behaviour was so similar on each occasion as to suggest that it might be the not infrequent habit of one individual, the ...
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